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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βουκόλιον (Boukólion).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Būcolium n sg (genitive Būcoliī or Būcolī); second declension
- A town of Laconia, where the inhabitants of Mantinea were defeated by those from Tegea
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “Bucolium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Bucolion”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly